A to Z Challenge Day #18 – R for Red Velvet Cup Cakes

Hello there… how is Monday treating you? Are you having the Monday Morning Blues? If yes I have the perfect trick to vanish that blue and get in some red! Yes I have my favourite cup cake today for my R post. It’s the Red Velvet Cup Cakes. I so love cup cakes and they are so easy to bake. I tend to avoid a lot of frosting in my cup cakes and like a rustic basic cup cake. But somehow I love the red velvet cup cakes because of its distinct flavor and color of course.

In my recipe I have kept it very easy and basic and have done 3 with a cream cheese frosting and left the rest without frosting.

This recipe makes 6 cup cakes.

All that you need

For the Cup cake

All purpose flour – 21/2 cups

Confectioners’ Sugar – 1 cup

Coco powder – ½ cup

Salt – ½ teaspoon

Butter – 1 cup

Vegetable oil – 2 tablespoon

Egg – 2 whole

Baking powder – 1 teaspoon

Vanilla essence – 1 tablespoon

Butter milk – ½ cup

Red Food coloring – 2 tablespoon [I used a powdered food grade color called Orange Red, if you get a color paste try to use that, it brings out amazing color, but a powder or liquid color is not that bad also.]

For the Frosting

I did very little frosting for photo’s sake so my proportions will vary. I’ll somehow will give a recipe for frosting if you want to do it for all six cup cakes

Cream cheese – 6 tablespoon (in room temperature)

Butter – 4 tablespoon

Confectioners’ Sugar – 1/2 cup

Lemon juice – 1 teaspoon

Let’s get started

For the Cup cake

Its super easy actually you need to mix all dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately and then mix them together.

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